Cast a Photographer, a Painter render HORIZON

Take two friends, two eyes, two artists, two years render a HORIZON. Presenting a collaboration between two Moreton Bay Region artists inspired by their local environment.

Gabi Mika-McNaughton Mika-McNaughton is a prolific Australian Landscape painter. She was the winner of ‘SHE 2012’ an Australian National Art Prize for
women and has been a selected finalist in many prestigious National and State prizes. Mika-McNaughton hopes to entice people to explore their own environments
and in doing so draw attention to how imperative it is to protect this increasingly fragile world. Therese Morgan Morgan has been a photographer and gallerist
for over 10 years. Her photography whether portraiture, landscape or abstract, has been selected for many art prizes. She has held numerous solo and joint
exhibitions. Recently having completed 3 years at QCA Morgan’s work is taking a new and fascinating direction, one well worth exploring. Morgan’s eye,
through her lens, challenges each viewer to take a personal journey into to a complex, beautiful, and sometimes fragile environment. First inspection of
her a work delivers something very satisfying, but you are challenged to investigate further, as all is not what it seems.

Feature Stories

A cartoon about the life and times of a Sri Lankan panda bear, sculptures of weird little characters, hand-blown glass inspired by nature, a virtual reality installation, photography dealing with audience psychology and a variety of paintings are some of the works from emerging professional artists that will be featured at the Hall & Wilcox Art Exhibition.

“Till we meet again, if not in this world, in the next.” These are the heartbreaking last words of a Bendigo boy in a final letter to his mum before the young soldier was killed in action on the Western Front in WWI. Private Leslie Robins’ poignant words formed the inspiration for his great-great-nephew Andrew Harrison to compose an extraordinary contemporary classical work, If Not In This World, to be premiered at two major concerts of the same name. If Not In This World, along with another new work by Bendigo-based composer Rohan Phillips, Meditations on der Krieg, will be performed by the acclaimed Arcko Symphonic Ensemble in two powerful and emotionally-charged concerts in Bendigo on Saturday 10 November and the following day in Melbourne on Sunday 11 November, the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day.